The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21

bowling mob who pelted the members with |
large humps of snow and ice. One of the
females Of the army was knocked senseless
and dangerously hurt by being struck on
the head with a piece of ice weighing
nearly five pounds. The drums of the de
tachment were ali smashed. The police
have as yet made no arrests.
Henry w. Grady writes of Cleveland's
prospects: "The South is more than salts
lied with his record, and there will not be
q division of sentiment in any State from
| Virginia to Texas on the question of his re-
nomination. lie will carry every State in
the South into the convention and will not
lose half dozen delegates. In the Electo-
raj College he will not lose vote from the
| South" --...
a fire occurred at Lancaster Thursday
morning, burning down several houses
| DIr. Joseph Walker, in feeding his stock
| just about daylight, in the livery of Hicl<-
! son & Walker, was using a new lantern,
and finding something the matter with it,
undertook to take the lamp out of it, and
in an instant the hay and fodder took fire,
and the flames spread too rapidly to be ar
rested. The horses were saved, but Mr..
Walker was severely burned.
The language used by Chamberlain, in
speaking at the meetings in Ayr, has in
fiamcd the Irish against him, and he has
received numerous letters warning him
that he will not leave Scotland alive. Ad-
dressing an asscmblage of $500 persons,
Chamberlain spoke Of the Irish people as
those who commit theft, ruin industrious
| men, and outrage women" and he used
other language equally abusive.
Martha Washingtons memory is lbcled
by some glccful ghoul, who says that her
writing was very bad, that she knew no
other punctuation mark than the dash. and
that the apostrophe was u stranger to her.
The G,ceful ghoul evidently has very few
1cmlnlnc correspondents, or he would know
| that some some Of Martha's most charming
daughtcrs-if she be regarded as the Mother
OF her c0untly-are similarly scornful of
| these little COnvcntionalites.
The arrivals at Queenstown of emiprauts
on their way to the United States, are cnor.
nous The railways are running special
| trains to accommodate this class Of travel,
The number of emigrants now awaiting
steamers to carry them to their destinations
IS already greater that can be housed in the
notes and lodging houses, and many ere
camping i'll the streets. Fifteen hundred
embarked yesterday Three thousand more
arc expected to arrive Saturday next to take
! steamers.
DR.. Ray Palmer's sou, Rev. Charles Ray
| Palmer, thus explains the story that his
! famous hymn, My Faith Looks Up TO
| IhcC. has two stanzas less than the origi-
nal draft handed to DR.. Lowell Mason. The
| truth about that is that his father translated
| from the German two stanZas describing q
Suppliant before the cross, and then added
two more as the Suppiants utterancc, and
| lhcrc were the first two of the hymn as it
| now appears. The translated verses were
| never used.
Thursday afternoon George Werner. q
| tcaclpr of tho cuhDrhnu vii - =.
the town Of Williamsburg, Wis, punished
refractory pupil named Henry Zugbusch
oy applying ruler sharply to his wrist.
and the boy fell back in his seat uncoD.
| scious: Supposing that the boy had tainted
| they then threw two pales of water over
| him, but the pupil was dead The teacher
!Icd and has not been seen since The
farmers OF the community are looking for
nm ana threaten to lynch him rs the bows
father claims that Werner choked him to
death.
Henry Georges wife is coming in for her
share Of the curiosity of those who want
to know, you know" and the BROOKLYN
Itmc$ tells them that "sHe is a thorough
| home body, devoted to Lar husband and
! their four children; one Of the Small, plump
| rMCcry bodies that never get down-hearted,
and people who have known them long
! time say that but for her untlagging devo.
| George would never have been able to come
trlumphantly through the long period of
| S!rt!t"ncd means and hard work which prc.
rrdcd his sudden success"
The President and Mrs. Cleveland were
! not present at the christening of Baby
Whitney, but they showed they were not
unmlndtul Of the event in Il very substan
tEI manner. Their present, which was
c3nimncd in large case of blossom pink
push, lined with white satin, consisted of
Il handsome silver platter, milk bowl and
spoon. The platter and bowl were in the
slylc known as satin finished, in the centre
| OF each of which was engraved dorothy.
toimlng deep border around the edge
IN raised figures all manner of quaint de-
signs OF children cngugcdi in childish sports.
Accompanying this was dainty basket of
lilies of-thc-Valley
Attorney General Garland had a hard
time OF it in his earlier manhood. After
ms admission to the bar he hung out his
snmgIc at Washington. Arkansas. but the
clients all passed his door and entered the
once OF an older lawyer. One day he
a2tonishcd his Office associate by blndfold-
ing himself, stepping up to map of the
STATE and Viciously thrusting his pencil into
the map. with the words; Il am going to
move where my pencil strikes. IF lis
town, Ill practice law, if it's country, III
farm it; if its river III 60 to steamboat.
ing, The pencil struck Little Rock, and
there he went.
Rev. Edward G. Taylor, pastor Of the
Delaware Avenue Baptist Church, Buffalo, |
y. Y, died yesterday Of pneumonia. He !
was oditor of the Baptist Sunday School |
Quarterly and furnished lessons notes for |
the Baptist Leader He was author of
some of the Moody & Sankey hymns and
other musical fave .ites. He was graduate
OF buckncll College and Rochester Theo.
logical Seminary, and had been successive.
~ pastor of the Coliseum Place Baptist
Church of New Orleans, the Park Avenue
baptist Church of Chicago and the First
baptist Churches of Providence, II. l., and
Newark, N. j. His Buffalo pastorate be.
gan january l. 1885,
An indianapolis special says; On Satur.
day last the ticket agent of the Pennsylya.
ma road ut Logansport refused to sell n
party OF II tickets to San Diego over the
Chicago and Alton road, the Western con,
ncc'ion Of the Pennsylvania lines, which
the Pennsylvania Company has bovcottod